Airport Narrative (Overview & History)

The Honolulu International Airport opened in 1927 as John Rodgers Field, and has served for decades as a major airport, focused on serving the Hawaiian tourism industry. The airport shares its four runways with Hickam AFB, and is just southeast of Pearl Harbor. It occupies 4,220 acres, and has a parallel runway built out into Mamala Bay.
Roughly 171 civilian fixed-wing aircraft are based here, as well as 18 helicopters, and 32 military aircraft. ATC services are provided by FAA controllers.
Airport operations have steadily declined since at least 1990. There were 407K total operations in 1990, but 312K in 2014, a 23% decline. This averages out to 854 ops/day, or 16 takeoffs/ATC-hr, i.e., one takeoff every four minutes.
A $1.7B modernization plan was unveiled in 2006, focused almost entirely on buildings (terminals, cargo, parking, etc.).

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